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Carbon copy typescript of Christchurch Training College thesis titled Marshland: a social survey of a New Zealand rural community by Hywel Wynn Hughes.

Scope and Contents Interviews by W.J. Walter in the 1930s with people of the Marshland area of their memories of life in the area during the 19th Century. Includes a set of typescripts of the interviews by Mairehau High School students in the 1960s and 1970s; an item from The Sun; and an incomplete copy of H.W. Hughes' thesis on Marshland (1939). The material in this collection was used for a section on Marshland for J.P. Morrison's Evolution of a city and also for Terry McGovern's...